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Re:Candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than... by dragonwriter on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:22AM (#44783941)
> What does this have to do with what I just said?

It literally directly contradicts the idea that what he is saying is, as you claim, “the truth”.

> Did you see me defending their hoops or defending their honesty?

Since the claim that you described as “the truth” is that product is simply an inevitability that everyone will have to deal with, defending their honesty is defending the hoops.

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Re:Candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than... by FirmwareBurner on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:30AM (#44783985)
>It literally directly contradicts the idea that what he is saying is, as you claim, “the truth”.

It's the truth from his perspective of how he runs his company and how he views the relationship with employees, not the idealist holy ground truth of how things should work. I imagined that was obvious when I made the statement with family.

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Re:Candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than... by dragonwriter on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:54AM (#44786665)
It’s what he wants people to believe is the truth because he has an obvious commercial interest in them believing it and acting on that belief.
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